The Uniform forms

Very good post from Southern Orders, makes a sharp point about habits forming habits, pay special attention to the comments, some are really good, especially one from a convert.

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NOW THIS PRIEST KNOWS WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT

Who are the ones who are most opposed to the “reform of the reform” today? It isn’t young people longing for the good old 1960 and ’70’s. It is priests and religious who spearheaded some of the mindless excesses of the 1960’s and 70’s who now are in their 60’s, 70’s and 80’s who are having the hardest time. The priest in this video states with a great deal of truth that the silliest of the changes in the Church of the 1960’s and 70’s was fomented not by the laity but by priests and liberal women religious (sisters), but he does have a historical perspective.

These are the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Corondelet of Saint Louis as they were dressed when they taught me in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s in Atlanta and Augusta (In Atlanta, St. Anthony School of the 1950’s had about 150 students in grades 1 thru 8 and about 9 sisters living in the convent to staff the school and even more sisters in the convent in Augusta at St. Mary on the Hill School!:

This is how they look today(I was particularly shocked when I went to a formal hospital fund raising gala in the early 2000’s in Augusta when two of the sisters of Saint Joseph arrived in the ballroom wearing sequined evening gowns. Fortunately very few there knew they were sisters:

Priests in cassocks:

also this links to an article from rorate-cael, about habits, quite good

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Today I had a casual conversation in the work I do with a young family living in Lebanon. They came to the Cincy area from Michigan. The were looking about for a place to live. Their first question was the quality of the Church and their parish. They mentioned St. Susanna in Mason and were polite in describing their ultimate choice in St. Francis de Sales in Lebanon because it was more orthodox. There is really something going on – this wasn’t my first such experience in conversation with much younger Catholics specifically rejecting the “progressive” view.

I think there are 2 elements in this fine priest’s talk, one of which is valid (the Church needs to return to Tradition), but the other of which, though I’m not sure he meant it this way, is dangerous. That is, he says several times, in several different ways, that the Church, taking on characteristics of whatever age she happens to find herself, now needs to adapt yet again (my comment) to the needs of modern young people, who are more sophisticated, tired of modernism, up to the challenge and discipline of Tradition, etc.

Yet this is precisely the kind of thinking that created the VII disaster to begin with. We need to adapt to modern man! Speak his language! Aggiornamento! Reform! Simplify! Blah blah blah. Constant adaptation to the human element, even if it turns the correct way, is not the way the Church should be steering herself. The Church is a divine oasis in the midst of ever-changing human insanity, and she should measure herself by, and only by, fidelity to those heavenly precepts which were laid down by Our Lord, the Apostles, the Fathers and the Doctors of the Church.

In other words, and sorry to be so long-winded, it is the laity who have to conform ourselves to the Church, for the sake of our souls – not the other way around. Father is displaying human-centered thinking in this clip, though I suspect he might be using it as a handy additional justification for the restoration of Tradition.